{"id":7018,"date":"2008-01-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"Fairfield-Greenwich-Group-Launches-New-Business-Unit-Dedicated-to-Third-Party-Managers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2008\/Fairfield-Greenwich-Group-Launches-New-Business-Unit-Dedicated-to-Third-Party-Managers.html","title":{"rendered":"Fairfield Greenwich Group Launches New Business Unit Dedicated to Third-Party Managers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span>HedgeCo.net -January 17,  2008<\/span><\/strong><strong><span>.<\/span><\/strong>  Fairfield Greenwich Group (&quot;FGG&quot;), a leading global alternative asset management  firm with approximately $16 billion in assets under management, today announced  the formation of a new business unit dedicated to the marketing and distribution  of external hedge funds and private equity funds. FGG, with over 24 years in  business, a diverse global client base, and a broad platform of alternative  investment vehicles, has created the Fairfield Capital Partners team to focus  exclusively on these third-party mandates.<\/p>\n<p><span>The  Fairfield Capital Partners team, drawn from the firm&rsquo;s Investment, Operations,  Sales\/Marketing, and Client Services groups, will identify, position, and  distribute funds through the existing FGG investor network. The Fairfield  Capital Partners team will enjoy the full support and resources of Fairfield  Greenwich Group, including the firm&rsquo;s global sales force. Fairfield Capital  Partner&rsquo;s current mandates include three multi-billion dollar funds, whose  strategies include systematic trading, activist investing, and discretionary  global long\/short.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Matt  Brown, Partner of FGG and head of the Fairfield Capital Partners team commented,  &quot;Our firm has one of the largest dedicated hedge fund sales teams in the  industry and an extensive global investor network which continues to grow. We  therefore believe FGG will be an attractive marketing and distribution partner  for many of the industry&rsquo;s leading managers.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>About Fairfield Greenwich  Group<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Founded in  1983, Fairfield Greenwich Group (&quot;FGG&quot;) is a leading alternative asset  investment specialist. FGG&rsquo;s mission is to offer our clients superior hedge  funds and related products with a high level of client service and support.  Throughout its history, the firm has internally managed its own hedge funds and  selectively identified external managers for a limited number of joint venture  relationships through which fully transparent single manager and multi-strategy  hedge funds are developed and managed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Today, FGG  offers a variety of single manager, multi-strategy, fund-of-funds, and other  investment vehicles to meet most alternative investors&rsquo; needs. As of January  2008, FGG has approximately USD $16 billion in client and firm assets under  management. It is an employee-owned firm with over 120 employees, 19 of whom are  shareholders, and has offices in New York,  London, Madrid,  and Bermuda, and representative offices elsewhere in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Fairfield Greenwich Group is the marketing name for  the securities and investment advisory businesses of Fairfield Greenwich Limited  and its subsidiaries worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Please  visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fggus.com\/\" title=\"blocked::http:\/\/www.fggus.com\/\">www.FGGUS.com<\/a> for more  information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Media  Contact:<br \/>Andrew Ludwig, Director of Communications<br \/>Fairfield Greenwich  Group<br \/>55 East 52nd  Street &ndash; 33rd Floor<br \/>New York, NY  10055<br \/>(212) 319-6060  Tel<br \/>(212) 319-0450 Fax<br \/><a href=\"mailto:communications@fggus.com\" title=\"blocked::mailto:communications@fggus.com\">Communications@fggus.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HedgeCo.net -January 17, 2008. Fairfield Greenwich Group (&quot;FGG&quot;), a leading global alternative asset management firm with approximately $16 billion in assets under management, today announced the formation of a new business unit dedicated to the marketing and distribution of external [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}